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Reading contemporary literature is often difficult for me. It's the same with many movies or television shows that are "too real." I want to escape into a story and feel safe doing so, knowing the monsters aren't real or the setting is a fantastical adaptation of a dream. However, I like to try new things and Paper Castles by B. Fox was ripe for the picking.

James Brooke, as the down-and-out protagonist with no direction after college, was the perfect vehicle to move this story forward, and the allegory of paper castles was clear and to the point. James has father issues, self-doubt issues, acceptance issues, and just about any other issue that might place many people in therapy for years. If our behavior is guided by our past, then the backstory given in Paper Castles was just enough to get me to believe in this man's flaws.

It was all of these flaws--these "too real" traits--that endeared me to the character. I felt at times like James. I could empathize with him and see things from his point of view. B. Fox did a truly outstanding job of making me root for this struggling young man and dreamer.

The other characters, specifically Karen and James's father Henry, were not as dynamic as I would like. While we see obvious change in James, we see less in Karen or Henry. At the end of the novel I felt I wanted to know more about them. Granted, the novel is 1st person and it would not be right for our protagonist to hop into the mind of a secondary or tertiary character, but through action and dialogue we can infer change. Endearing me more to Karen and Henry would have rounded out this novel as a full five stars.

Without spoiling anything, the novel did help me examine a life not lived and left me with hope. Despite the singular flaw mentioned above, Paper Castles is a superb novel of love, loss and the bumpy river in which we all must navigate. I expect great things from B. Fox and hope he will continue this story in the future. There is much more to tell of James Brooke.
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5
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